Tai Yo

Tai Yo is a Southwestern Tai language spoken by about 60,000 people in central Laos, northeast Thailand and northern Vietnam. In Vietnam it is spoken in Quế Phong, Quỳ Châu and Quỳ Hợp districts of Nghệ An Province. In Laos it is spoken in the Vieng Thong and Khamkeut districts of Borikhamxay Province, and in Thailand, Tai Yo speakers can be found particularly in the provinces of Sakon Nakhon, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Nakhon Phanom and Maha Sarakham, and also in Prachinburi and Saraburi.

Tai Yo is known as Tai Mène (ไทแมน) OR (Tai) Nyaw (ญ้อ) in Laos and Thailand, and Tai Do (Tay Dọ) or Tai Quy Chau (Thái Quỳ Châu) in Vietnam.

There are ways to write Tai Yo with the Latin alphabet and the Thai script. In the past, it was written with the Tai Yo script (a.k.a Lay Tai script), a descendent of the Khmer script.

Latin alphabet for Tai Yo

Latin alphabet for Tai Yo

Thai alphabet for Tai Yo

Thai script for Tai Yo

Download alphabet charts for Tai Yo (Excel)

Sample text

Chu vi chu vīt
Tọ pīt nāng be
Tọ pe nāng bô̄i
Xá khối lầ ù.

Source: https://www.academia.edu/44580646/Summarized_version_of_Tai_Yo_script_updated_

Video in Tai Yo

Links

Information about Tai Yo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Yo_language
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiếng_Tay_Dọ
https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/ภาษาญ้อ
https://www.academia.edu/44580646/Summarized_version_of_Tai_Yo_script_updated_

Tai-Kaidai languages

Ahom, Aiton, Bouyei, Isan, Kam, Khamti, (Tai) Khün, Lao, Lue, Northern Thai (Kam Mueang), Nùng, Shan, Sui, Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Tai Hongjin, Tai Laing, Tai Nuea, Tai Phake, Tai Ya, Tai Yo, Thai, Thai Song, Yang Zhuang, Zhuang

Languages written with the Thai script

Akha, Bisu, Isan, Kuy, Northern Khmer, Northern Pwo, Nyah Kur, Pāli, Sanskrit, Tai Yo, Thai, Thai Song, Urak Lawoi’

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 14.04.25. Last modified: 14.04.25

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